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source Scott Olson/Getty Images The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) released a survey of its 14,000 members on Wednesday, showing record levels of confidence among the group and an overall positive outlook. NAM cites the Republican-led tax law as a driving force behind the boom in US manufacturing. Projected wage growth is also expected to rise at the fastest pace in 17 years. American Manufacturers are experiencing record levels of confidence for their businesses, according to a recent survey conducted by the largest trade association for manufacturers. In the National Association of Manufacturers’ (NAM) quarterly outlook survey published on Wednesday, 95.1 percent of manufacturers surveyed said they have a positive outlook for their companies, a record-high in the past 20 years. The survey also found that among medium-sized manufacturers, 95.8 percent of those … [Read more...] about Manufacturing confidence is through the roof in latest survey

Fatema Begum, 18, vividly remembers one September morning last year when she was awakened by the sound of intense gunfire. Begum was in bed at her home in the coastal village of Inn Din, in the northern Rakhine state of Myanmar, when military vehicles moved in and troops began to surround the town. The sun rose and the military randomly fired at the houses. “They don’t care if someone gets shot. They used rocket launchers to take down houses. My family quickly got out of our house when we saw smoke and fire and heard gunfire from many directions. We saw soldiers shooting people who were running away, or entering houses to see if there was anyone,” Begum told The Korea Herald. Women with children were the most victimized of all because they were not able to quickly escape and were caught, according to Begum. “Then the military dragged them to an empty house and raped them brutally. They took one of my neighbors that way.” A few days after hiding among … [Read more...] about Rohingya refugees hesitant to return to Rakhine state

NEW YORK (WASHINGTON POST) - More than 40 years after the so-called "Golden State Killer" began to terrorise Californians, raping dozens of women and killing at least 12, authorities announced on Wednesday (April 25) that they had arrested 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo in the case. News of DeAngelo's arrest marked a sudden development in what had been one of the most notorious unsolved crime sprees in US history, one that stretched over a decade and terrorised scores of people across California. Police said DNA evidence helped lead them to DeAngelo, who had been living in Citrus Heights, California, a city outside Sacramento. "We found the needle in the haystack, and it was right here in Sacramento," District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said at a news conference in the California capital. The string of attacks - attributed to someone alternately dubbed the Golden State Killer, Original Night Stalker and East Area Rapist - was horrifying for both the nature of the attacks and their … [Read more...] about ‘Golden State Killer’ suspect arrested in one of the worst unsolved crime sprees in US history

BELGRADE: Bekim Gashi and Kasandra Cac are neighbours in Orlovsko Naselje, a Roma area in Belgrade. But while one dreams of his daughter becoming a doctor, the other sees "no future" for hers. Their worlds are only a few dozen metres apart but are completely different. Gashi, 32, managed to obtain social housing for his family after being selected from a list, while on the hill just above it, 20-year-old Cac survives in a substandard camp. Although their lives have arbitrarily taken different paths, they are among thousands of Roma in Serbia, as in the rest of the Balkans, to be "exposed to discrimination in almost all areas of life", according to a 2016 European Commission report on the country. From lodging and education, to access to employment and health, Roma in Serbia face inequity. Raising awareness of such issues is one of the aims of International Roma Day on Sunday, an event which annually also seeks to celebrate Roma culture. Serbia's Roma community officially numbers … [Read more...] about For Serbia’s Roma, just getting a roof over their heads is a start

By Bruce Arthur Sports Columnist Mon., Feb. 19, 2018 PYEONGCHANG, SOUTH KOREA—It took Natalie Spooner time before she believed it, before it felt real. A few months, she thinks. She would hear people tell her they were in a hospital oncology ward and they turned the gold-medal game on; that they were on a Caribbean island, watching the game in a thatch-roofed bar. But she couldn’t wrap her mind about it. Canada 3, USA 2, Sochi, 2014. It was real-life legend. “It’s pretty cool to know that literally all of Canada tuned in to watch that game, and their lives stopped, because of hockey,” says Spooner, a longtime member of Canada’s women’s hockey team. Four years later, and everything has built back up to another pinnacle. The sport is improving. More countries are better. But it is the United States and Canada, again, forever locked at the peak. “I mean, it’s the biggest stage,” said Canadian forward … [Read more...] about It’s Canada and the United States for women’s hockey gold